Author's note:
Alright here is chapter 6 of Gyokudan. It would've been out yesterday but I went to see a movie instead.
The italics are always Kakuzu's thoughts.
Chapter Six: King vs. Bishop
"Die traitor!" Hidan yelled as he swung his scythe straight at Haruki's head.
"Go to hell!" Haruki said as he used an axe to block the scythe and then flung another one at Hidan's head.
Hidan dodged out of the way in time but the rope on his scythe was cut. Asshole, I'll break him in half for that.
Haruki then lunged at Hidan who was unable to fully block Haruki's axe with his scythe and grunted as the axe blade was buried deep in his side.
"I'll cleave you in two!" Haruki yelled with a twisted smile on his face, forcing the axe in Hidan's side through his body. "You cannot stop the advent of Ikichism!"
Haruki's smile vanished when Hidan's arm grabbed the handle of his axe and snapped the wood in two.
"Y-You-." But Haruki's sentence was replaced with a scream when he felt Hidan's scythe tearing through his torso.
"Since I first met you I've wanted to do this." Kakuzu said as he prepared to battle Gyokudan.
"Oh I know, and it was hard for me to not just kill you guys on the spot and make you my slaves." Gyokudan replied snidely.
"I bet."
"Heh……. Well before we begin I have something to do." Gyokudan clasped his hands together in prayer fashion and lowered his head to the ground. "Beyond the Grave Servitude: Resurrect!" Gyokudan yelled out the last word and an incredible chakra enveloped the area.
"So what now Leader-sama?" Kisame asked Pein.
"You go back to your original duties, Zetsu and I will wait here for Kakuzu and Hidan." Pein replied.
"Whatever, let's go Tobi, yeah." Deidara called out to the new member but got no reply as Tobi was staring out at the recent battlefield. "Hey! What the hell is it?!"
"I think we may have a problem Leader-sama." Tobi said to Pein pointing to the field.
Pein followed his pointing and was annoyed to see the zombies of Gyokudan reappearing from nothingness.
"What the hell!" Kisame yelled. "There shouldn't be anything left after Amaterasu!"
"There wasn't" Itachi stated, sharingan active. "The zombie's are reforming out of thin air."
Pein was unnerved by this but didn't let it show. "It would seem that our foe has left a parting gift for us. By the looks of it as long as he is alive he can resurrect these things."
"That means it's up to Hidan and Kakuzu." Konan said.
"Ah crap." Kisame said.
"And now that that's taken care of, let's begin Kakuzu-kun." Gyokudan said smugly.
Kakuzu was so consumed with his need to kill Gyokudan that he didn't even care about that jutsu he just used. Instantly he shot off his fist at Gyokudan, the fist, still connected by threads, smashed straight into Gyokudan's jaw knocking him backwards and tumbling to the ground. But Kakuzu wasn't done yet as he used his extended hand to grab the hem of Gyokudan's cloak and dragged him roughly across the ground before letting him go and sending the Ikichist into a large tree.
"Get up Gyokudan." Kakuzu said as he brought his hand back.
"Hey hey, can't I get a little rest? I just fought the Rinnegan you know?" Gyokudan said as he pulled himself out of the destroyed tree. "You've got quite a temper don't you?"
"Shut up. I'm not here to talk."
"Just trying to make your last few minutes alive enjoyable." Gyokudan said as he swiftly pulled out his scythe and charged at Kakuzu.
He's faster than I thought!
Kakuzu barely had time to dodge out of the way, but Gyokudan kept on swinging his scythe wildly, always attacking in a new way.
I can't keep this up, he's too fast and he won't tire.
"Die!" Gyokudan shrieked as he aimed the scythe right for Kakuzu's heart. However the blade simply bounced off of Kakuzu's left forearm with a metallic clang.
Gyokudan's surprise turned quickly to pain as Kakuzu's right hand plowed into his face with an audible crunch, sending the scythe wielder rocketing backwards into a rock, which exploded from the impact.
"This is why I was never afraid of that idiot's curse."
"Ow……. you bastard…… that hurt a lot." Gyokudan said as he arose from the rubble, he set his smashed jaw back into place with a snap and continued. "I thought I saw you make a hand-sign but I wasn't sure. What jutsu is that?"
"It would be pointless for you to know anyways. You cannot break through my defense."
"Oh please Kakuzu, I've lived for over three-hundred years I've seen all kinds of jutsu, gen or nin, wind to fire. And none of them are unbeatable." Gyokudan swung his scythe at Kakuzu and the blade came out on the chain aiming to decapitate the green eyed ninja.
However Kakuzu simply ducked a little raised his hand and allowed the chain to wrap around his left forearm.
"Fine then, we can play it that way!" Gyokudan said as he tugged hard on the chain hoping to pull Kakuzu over. Yet his plan backfired as with Kakuzu's new strength weight also came, and Gyokudan's power was not enough to heave Kakuzu over.
"Oh shit." Gyokudan deadpanned.
"That's right." And then with a great tug Kakuzu pulled Gyokudan off the ground swung him around in a circle and deposited him into the ground. But Kakuzu wasn't finished he pulled Gyokudan, who was still clutching the pole of the scythe, towards him at great speed and punched him square in the chest. A bone cracking shatter was emitted through the clearing as Gyokudan let go of his scythe and was sent flying backwards from the force of the punch.
"You done?" Kakuzu asked.
"No. In fact I wanted to thank you." Gyokudan said as he picked himself off the ground looking much worse for wear but still able to do combat. "This is a fun fight. Haven't had a fun fight like this in years."
"You're insane."
"Maybe a little. However I would like it if you could give me my scythe back."
"You're an idiot too."
"Where do you think Hidan got it from?" At the end of that sentence Gyokudan bit into his own wrist and tore off the flesh to let the blood flow out of his arm.
What's he going to do?
"Let's see if this can break your defense." Gyokudan then raised his hand and dozens of blood droplets rose into the sir. "Blood bullets!"
The deadly drops of blood shot towards Kakuzu at high speed wanting to drill through his defense. However Kakuzu simply crossed his arms in front of his face and while the droplets created cracks and little holes they did not break through the Iron Body.
"Aw man, I was really hoping that would work."
"You shouldn't have."
"Whatever." Gyokudan ran at Kakuzu a makeshift sword of blood forming in his hands, he aimed it right for Kakuzu's chest but the blade was blocked by Kakuzu's arm. The sword sunk into his skin a little but did no real damage. Gyokudan then flipped over Kakuzu's head and landing behind him tried to swipe his feet out from under him. However with the weight of the Iron body all it did was send Kakuzu a little off balance.
This was all Gyokudan needed though as he was quickly able to grab his scythe off the ground and jump away from Kakuzu before he had a chance to retaliate.
He did all that just to get his scythe back? He must be planning something.
"You know water can be able to cut through steel like it were butter. There are several water jutsu's that take advantage of that sharpness. But I am no water specialist so I will have to substitute something else." Gyokudan slit his other wrist with the scythe blade and the blood streamed over the blade of the weapon turning it into a dark red color.
"What are you doing?" Kakuzu asked with a tiny hint of worry in his voice.
"Simply sharpening my blade Kakuzu-kun." The blood had now hardened and transformed the blade of the scythe into a truly nightmarish thing. It was longer, crooked, and spiked with three extra blades coming out of the backside. The image was made greater by the deep crimson color the weapon had become. "I will cut through you, and you will be able to do nothing." Gyokudan lunged at Kakuzu swinging his scythe wildly like before.
This is bad, I've got a feeling that the blade will cut through me. I'll have to dodge and incapacitate him some how.
"You're just to slow!" Gyokudan flipped over Kakuzu and lashed out with his scythe cutting the Akatsuki agent on the arm. The blade went right through the Iron Body.
"Ha! I told you so! Now die." Gyokudan let the blade fly from the pole on its chain straight at Kakuzu's face. He was able to doge however and come back to kick Gyokudan in the side sending him careening into a tree.
"I still have my strength Gyokudan. You can't match that."
"Like it matters!" Gyokudan twirled his scythe around like a windmill creating a cyclone of death in front of him as he charged Kakuzu once more. Aside from a few glancing hits though it seemed Gyokudan was still getting nowhere, that is until apart of the blood on the scythe blade broke off and launched itself straight at Kakuzu.
Kakuzu pivoted to his side but the spike of blood still hit him in the leg sending him just off balance enough for Gyokudan to attack.
"Take this!" Gyokudan yelled as he swung the scythe into Kakuzu's chest slicing through the Iron Body defense and into one of his hearts.
"Gyaah! Ughhh. Shit….." Kakuzu hunched over and didn't move as Gyokudan slipped him off of his scythe. However the Ikichist didn't seem relaxed.
"Come on, come on, just get up already. I can feel those other hearts beating in you, and I won't fall for a feint."
A grunt was heard from Kakuzu as he stood up and glared at Guokudan. "I really hate you."
"I know."
"Fine, let's really have some fun. Gwooooaauughh!" Kakuzu yelled out as the four mask creatures emerged from his body.
"Whoa. Didn't see that coming. Your abilities have a weirdness level on par with my own."
"I'm going to butcher you." But before the attacks could begin one of the mask creature's fell over with a yelp and disassembled into strings and a pool of blood.
"Ah, so that's how it works. But what's the point of these masks in the first place?"
"I'll show you. Wind: Great Pressure!" A hurricane force wind blasted out of the eagle mask uprooting a good amount of the forest caught in the blast and severely disorientating Gyokudan.
"Now, Lightning: False Darkness!" Twin bolts of lightning came out of the bull mask and Gyokudan was unable to doge or defend and was fried by the blast.
"Done yet?"
"Ha, hahaha. You must be joking. Hell no I'm not done!" Gyokudan said as he stood up off the ground smoke still coming off his charred body. "This is great, why would I want to be done? But I guess I will have to start using more of my ability. Gotta keep up with you."
And with that Gyokudan hunched over and angel wings of blood sprouted from his back. This time however he stayed on the ground.
What the hell. And his chakra, it's getting stronger….. and darker.
"Be impaled, will you?" Gyokudan said as his wings turned into dozens of spears and shot out towards Kakuzu and his mask creatures.
"Wind:Great Pressure!" The blast of wind blew back the spears but Gyokudan simply raised his arms and sent dozens of blood spikes at Kakuzu.
Shit! Kakuzu and his masks jumped out of the way but Gyokudan came straight for the green eyed shinobi, and his left wing changed into one giant blade as he attempted to skewer Kakuzu.
"Fire: Intense Pain!" Kakuzu yelled as he attempted to stop Gyokudan's attack.
It half worked as the fire blinded and injured Gyokudan enough for the blade to miss Kakuzu but in a frenzied retaliation Gyokudan exploded his right wing into blood spikes and launched them randomly. One buried itself in Kakuzu's left leg and several drilled into the lightning mask creature effectively ending it's usefulness.
Shit. Nothing's working, every attack has no effect on him. It doesn't seem like he can be knocked out and even if I were to restrain him with my threads he doesn't need hand-signs to will his blood to attack. I can't combine with my masks either, that's just creating a bigger target, maybe if I combine the wind and fire masks I'll have enough power to burn him into ashes. That must stop him.
The two masks formed into one and now Gyokudan was in between it and Kakuzu.
"Oh? What are you planning Kakuzu-kun?"
"Hopefully your death." Kakuzu said as he jumped up onto a tree branch.
"Hey where ya going?"
"Just getting out of the way." Kakuzu made a quick hand-sign. "Fire wind fusion…. Die!"
The huge column of fire enveloped Gyokudan and quickly burnt down most of the tree's in it's path. Soon after Kakuzu hopped down going to see if Gyokudan was finished.
"No…… god damn it." Kakuzu said.
A sphere of blood was where Gyokudan had been standing and soon that sphere folded outwards and reconfigured into the wings on Gyokudan's back.
"It's a great defense aint it?" And suddenly he shot out his scythe and cleaved through the fire and wind masks effectively neutralizing Kakuzu's elemental attacks. Kakuzu didn't have any time to retaliate however as the scythe blade came whizzing right at him. Kakuzu jumped back but still received a gash across his stomach.
"It's over now Kakuzu-kun." Gyokudan instantly appeared in front of Kakuzu and landed a powerful kick into his wounded stomach sending him falling backwards to the ground.
"I was wrong, this wasn't nearly as fun as I thought it would be. I mean you're weaker than the Second Raikage, and he was a real loser." Gyokudan was now standing over Kakuzu stomping on his exhausted body and whacking him a few times with the pole end of his scythe. "He kept begging for his life, groveling on his hands and knees. Even said I could take his wife and daughter if I just spared him. So after I beheaded him I went to his home and tortured his wife and daughter to death."
Kakuzu couldn't respond as Gyokudan had been beating him throughout the entire conversation.
"So do you see what my point is? It's that I just can't resist a good torturing. Well not really but it isn't important. What is important is that I'm going to kill you, and make you a soulless warrior for me. Bye, bye Kakuzu-kun."
Gyokudan raised his scythe for the killing blow.
The End For Now
Longest chapter I've ever written, And it was almost pure combat. Next chapter will be out sooner.